Julian Fellowes is just marvellous at celebrating the subtle slights that lie beneath aristocratic conversation. Reading his novel SNOBS is a guilty pleasure, owing not just to its bouncy plot, but also to the suspicion that Mr Fellowes knows the territory well. -- John Walsh * HARPERS AND QUEEN *
A delicious comedy of manners on the nuances of English social life, which raises laughter and an occasional wince of recognition. -- Clare Colvin * DAILY MAIL *
This provocative, titillating and seductive novel.......Julian Fellowes tells this anachronistic morality tale with such wit, verve, elegance and shadenfreude that it never loses momentum. -- Andrew Barrow * THE SPECTATOR *
'sparklingly rompish......... the world that Fellowes describes is an unchanging one: that of the landed aristocracy, whose wish since the beginning of time (or at least, since the beginning of titles), is to mix only with their own kind.... Fellowes is a delectable guide to its absurdities. -- Penny Perrick * SUNDAY TIMES *
'a good, fresh, read.... Fellowes has an excellent eye for detail..... Fellowes uses a light dusting of satire to help us enjoy our own snobbery without choking on chippiness. -- Mary Wakefield * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
deliciously waspish satire.... SNOBS is terrific entertainment, deepened by the sad ache of truth -- Lucy Beresford * LITERARY REVIEW *
'The Gosford Park writer's wry look at the English class system is an entertaining dabble in Debrett's. -- Andrea Henry * THE MIRROR *
a delicious contemporary comedy of manners - but it's the spiky Emma Woodhouse-style asides which make SNOBS so irresistible. -- John Koski * YOU MAGAZINE *
Fellowes's attractive, faintly cynical voice has overtones of Trollope, Waugh and Mitford.... this deft entertaining novel.... -- Philip Hoare * INDEPENDENT *
'A deliciously entertaining novel.' * STAR MAGAZINE *
the author of Gosford Park has written a novel so horribly compelling that anyone attempting to read if in the lav would cause a riot on the landing. -- Jane Shilling * THE TIMES *
An affectionate expose from the author of GOSFORD PARK, it reveals the sensibilities of today's dwindling upper classes, and the infiltration of their ranks by the new elite - celebrity hangers-on. * REAL *
It is one of those books one imagines being sent up to Balmoral, come September, where it will be proclaimed divinely funny and quite amazingly true to life. -- Catherine Bennett * THE GUARDIAN *
Fellowes has a nice epigrammatic style. He conjures characters deftly, and although the story is slight, it's sufficient to make the reader want to turn the page. -- Chris Paling * New Humanist *
The style is langorous, elegant and measured ... this absorbing book ... the finely crafted characters ... a riveting social history ... a gripping novel by someone with effortless grasp of character and dialogue that invites comparison with Evelyn Waugh ... his fine honed abilities as a storyteller.' -- Tim Lott * THE EVENING STANDARD *
He is first of all, a true stylist. The prose is good, lucid and polished without painful overwriting. -- Edward Pearce * TRIBUNE *
